How to store @Query sql in external file for CrudRepository?

Question

I\'m using spring with CrudRepositorys for database connection.

Now I require a quite long (several lines) sql query that I\'d prefer to ma

Answer 1

if your project set up has resources folder, create under /META-INF/jpa-named-queries.properties file and add key value pair as repoClass.methodName=yoursql. Spring data will pick up.

For longer queries it's probably best to use xml properties file with CDATA tags: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19128259/1194415